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...Hobey Baker finalist Dave Capuano, Hockey East Rookie of the Year Scott Pellerin, and goaltenders Scott King and Matt Delguidice, Maine breezed to the tournament title. The NCAA rewarded its efforts with the number-one seed in the East and a first-round...
Paul Cezanne made his Portrait of the Artist's Father in 1866, when he was 27. For years it hung in the privacy of a mansion on the outskirts of Paris owned by the family of the French industrialist Auguste Pellerin, who was an assiduous collector of Cezannes. Some ten years ago Paul Mellon, son and heir of Andrew Mellon, saw it there and with the tenacity of true love, set out to buy it. An intricate mating dance of negotiations began in 1965 and culminated at a Washington press conference last week, when Mellon announced the gift...
Nonetheless, to the French, the sale was an irreparable loss of national patrimony. Both the Philadelphia Bathers and the National Gallery's new acquisition were sold from the collection of a staunch Gaul, the late Auguste Pellerin, margarine magnate and one of the original collectors of Cézanne. But French fury focused on Culture Minister André Malraux, who has had the power since 1961 to instigate the refusal of export permits for outstanding works of native art. "Doesn't he like Cézanne?" asked Critic Pierre Cabanne in the weekly Arts. "This painting belonged first...
Consolation Prize. Actually, of course, the painting belonged to the Pellerin family, which has already given five Cézannes to the Louvre (which has a total of 26). To sweeten the deal that allowed The Bathers to leave France, the Pellerins gave still another Cézanne, an 1868 portrait of a minor artist, Achille Emperaire, whose name is oddly stencilled on the canvas. Said a Culture Ministry official: "One would say that one was a counterpart to the other." Few Frenchmen were satisfied by what they thought a paltry pre-impressionist consolation prize by a man who laid...
...numerous studies of nude figures against landscape. Its title, The Big Bathers, distinguishing it from others in the Bathers series, refers to the size of the canvas: 6 ft. 10 in. by 8 ft. 3 in. It was acquired by Mr. Widener from the private collection of the Pellerin family in Paris. Price: $110,000. After Mr. Widener's formal presentation, the Pennsylvania Museum put the painting on display, predicted proudly that "no person informed in the field of modern art will be able to miss the opportunity of seeing and studying a picture which has been described...